Often in our life, our desires ruin us. But not all desires are bad. In the Bhagwad Geeta, Lord Krishna says, ‘I am those desires that uphold dharma.’
Do not suppress your desires, they will simply come up more strongly in you. Rather, awaken viveka (power to discriminate between what is true and untrue) in you. To let go of desires you have to follow, a certain code of conduct. This is the manure by which the rose of divine love blossoms in life.
The first is to be non-violent in your action, heart, speech and thoughts. Secondly, follow the truth and live in the moment. You should express truth with your whole life- speak truth, speak pleasant truth, and speak beneficial truth.
Next is, maintain saucha or purity. Observing the scenery is saucha. It is when your own mind becomes a witness of its own actions and finds a gap between its own senses, and does not identify with the sense objects.
For love to blossom compassion is important. When people engage in some activity or behave in certain manner, that you don’t like, it triggers anger in you. Just for a moment, have compassion for the way they are. Then you’ll find a shift within Your Self expands and laughs at the smallness of these events and situations. You become untouched by these events and transcend Maya (illusion).
Faith also plays an important role in getting established in divine love. You find reason for everything that you do and for all your experiences. When reasoning or logic breaks down, you tremble. Faith, Reality and truth are beyond logic. If you can reason out all your life and all its experiences, then you have not lived or known life fully.
Every bud takes its own time to bloom; don’t force a bud to become a flower. Wait for the right time to come, for the total blossoming in you to come. Have infinite patience.
